hah! i am more foolish than all of you! i have been unemployed for nearly 2 years! i was a programmer in the great, white north! the company i worked for went hairy-banana broke in about 3 days, thereby screwing everybody out of a month's pay, severence, and vacation pay! on top of that, i was even a contractor! no way in hell i can get unemployment! i've made about $15000 (canadian money!) in the last 2 years doing itty-bitty contracts, and the government has taken almost half of it for taxes! i've been bent over and done dry by every government agency that exists to help the jobless (and very nearly homeless at one stressfull point)!
fortunately, i am not a complete loss. in my spare time (of which i have a great deal), i have somehow managed to complete (or very nearly) 3 new projects aimed at generating an actual income! haha! you can't touch me! i haven't been leeching the system! i haven't borrowed money from banks! i own my own car! bwah-ha-ha-haa!
and what sucks most is that most companies won't hire me because i'm self-taught (ie. i didn't have $50000 for computer science degrees and such things) and i have a chitty looking car (but dammit, i own the thing - it's MY chitty looking car).
i hope you don't talk that way to your (unfortunate) kids when they make a mistake.
cause i'm obviously some kind of twisted freak...
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i'll be watching all 5 original Planet Of The Apes movies!! ha!! at midnight exactly i'm going to run outside and write my name in the street, giggling like a madman! when my brain is satisfactorily liquified, i'm going to watch the ULTIMATE CHEESY MOVIE (TM) - Space Truckers with Dennis Hopper!! it only has one funny part, but it completely makes up for the rest of the movie!! BWAH-HA-HA-HAA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
i don't think i'm too young to know this, or too new to know this (i've actually been making decent money at this for 15 years). i'm aware that we laugh and point at fools - this is to be expected and only a fool thinks otherwise. the point is that we don't know the whole story behind this particular situation.
true, only allowing one browser on the site is foolish - we point and laugh. happens all the time. what we don't know is that the two previous businesses he mentioned failed - maybe the name was changed for some reason. as for business plan, it's reasonable to assume that they failed miserably at it, but then again, when one has investors backing them, you are only concentrating on getting the product working. perhaps this guy (and one or two others) are all that's left of the original team - the marketers and salespeople all left for greener pastures already. if they're developers without capital, how can they expect to market something?
in any case, this is a guy asking for help, suggestions, or whatever, and what he's getting is "shove it up your ass" and "you're an idiot" and "your company sucks." he, himself, didn't fail - the codec is written and working (supposedly). someone else gets paid to sell it. now that there's no money, he's looking for other solutions. how many of the threads here are actually helpful in that regard?
weird. about, oh, 90% of the replies here are either rude, completely useless (this one likely included), or "funny" (mostly rude too). the messages with the highest scores are the most useless. the 3 or 4 i found here that actually had suggestions were only scored 2 or 3, while one of the most asshole-like posts i've read here in a while is scored 4 - wtf? if this is gonna turn into yet another i'm-15-and-learned-to-spell-fuck-today sites, i'm outta here. there's something to be said for maturity. not that there's anything wrong with being funny, but the line between prick and comedian is thin, and too many people here are crossing it.
it's called ISOBuster. www.isobuster.com. it supports an obscene number of image formats, reads all kinds of discs... the list goes on. i'm not sure if it can mount an image as a folder or drive letter, but the guy who wrote the app has a few other utilities... maybe one of them will help too.
i used to use a 2.1 altec lansing set, which were very good. then i bought a Zen Triode amp (http://www.decware.com/zpage1.htm) and a pair of Celestion bookshelf speakers - my god. better surround sound out of 2 speakers and a sub (home-built, 10") than with any 4.1 pc speakers i've ever heard. costs a bit more (cause it's a damn good amp), but as long as you've got a pair of good speakers (like 92db sensitivity at least), you'll be laughing:)
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hah! i am more foolish than all of you! i have been unemployed for nearly 2 years! i was a programmer in the great, white north! the company i worked for went hairy-banana broke in about 3 days, thereby screwing everybody out of a month's pay, severence, and vacation pay! on top of that, i was even a contractor! no way in hell i can get unemployment! i've made about $15000 (canadian money!) in the last 2 years doing itty-bitty contracts, and the government has taken almost half of it for taxes! i've been bent over and done dry by every government agency that exists to help the jobless (and very nearly homeless at one stressfull point)!
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fortunately, i am not a complete loss. in my spare time (of which i have a great deal), i have somehow managed to complete (or very nearly) 3 new projects aimed at generating an actual income! haha! you can't touch me! i haven't been leeching the system! i haven't borrowed money from banks! i own my own car! bwah-ha-ha-haa!
and what sucks most is that most companies won't hire me because i'm self-taught (ie. i didn't have $50000 for computer science degrees and such things) and i have a chitty looking car (but dammit, i own the thing - it's MY chitty looking car).
you have been 0wned
i hope you don't talk that way to your (unfortunate) kids when they make a mistake.
i'll be watching all 5 original Planet Of The Apes movies!! ha!! at midnight exactly i'm going to run outside and write my name in the street, giggling like a madman! when my brain is satisfactorily liquified, i'm going to watch the ULTIMATE CHEESY MOVIE (TM) - Space Truckers with Dennis Hopper!! it only has one funny part, but it completely makes up for the rest of the movie!! BWAH-HA-HA-HAA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
i don't think i'm too young to know this, or too new to know this (i've actually been making decent money at this for 15 years). i'm aware that we laugh and point at fools - this is to be expected and only a fool thinks otherwise. the point is that we don't know the whole story behind this particular situation.
true, only allowing one browser on the site is foolish - we point and laugh. happens all the time. what we don't know is that the two previous businesses he mentioned failed - maybe the name was changed for some reason. as for business plan, it's reasonable to assume that they failed miserably at it, but then again, when one has investors backing them, you are only concentrating on getting the product working. perhaps this guy (and one or two others) are all that's left of the original team - the marketers and salespeople all left for greener pastures already. if they're developers without capital, how can they expect to market something?
in any case, this is a guy asking for help, suggestions, or whatever, and what he's getting is "shove it up your ass" and "you're an idiot" and "your company sucks." he, himself, didn't fail - the codec is written and working (supposedly). someone else gets paid to sell it. now that there's no money, he's looking for other solutions. how many of the threads here are actually helpful in that regard?
weird. about, oh, 90% of the replies here are either rude, completely useless (this one likely included), or "funny" (mostly rude too). the messages with the highest scores are the most useless. the 3 or 4 i found here that actually had suggestions were only scored 2 or 3, while one of the most asshole-like posts i've read here in a while is scored 4 - wtf? if this is gonna turn into yet another i'm-15-and-learned-to-spell-fuck-today sites, i'm outta here. there's something to be said for maturity. not that there's anything wrong with being funny, but the line between prick and comedian is thin, and too many people here are crossing it.
it's called ISOBuster. www.isobuster.com. it supports an obscene number of image formats, reads all kinds of discs... the list goes on. i'm not sure if it can mount an image as a folder or drive letter, but the guy who wrote the app has a few other utilities... maybe one of them will help too.
whoops - http://www.decware.com/zpage1.htm is the link
i used to use a 2.1 altec lansing set, which were very good. then i bought a Zen Triode amp (http://www.decware.com/zpage1.htm) and a pair of Celestion bookshelf speakers - my god. better surround sound out of 2 speakers and a sub (home-built, 10") than with any 4.1 pc speakers i've ever heard. costs a bit more (cause it's a damn good amp), but as long as you've got a pair of good speakers (like 92db sensitivity at least), you'll be laughing :)